 This is Kathi Bogan for Consortium News. We are outside the Noisy Leaks exhibition, the Art of Exposing Secrets, and this exhibition has a lot to do with Julie and Assange. We're very lucky to have a guide. And here we are in Berlin. Guide and have a look at the exhibition. Someone is going to tell me what's here. Welcome to Noisy Leaks. When you enter the gallery, maybe one of the first things your attention is attracted to is this fantastic original piece by Sarah Lucas. Did anybody mention authoritarianism? Oh, that's great. And it has been made especially for us. It's pretty much setting the tone, I think, to a lot of the things you're going to see in the exhibition. This is kind of like the jackbook, isn't it? Coming down on some very, very sensitive parts. Another thing that may attract your attention is the TV here with the vintage 1986 NES Nintendo console. It is running a 2019 game called What Remains, which is a story about disinformation and whistleblowing. In the game you're a little girl in 1986 learning about fake science produced around secondhand smoking, acid rain and other environmental issues. And your tool to interact with the world is to blow the whistle and the rest would be spoilers. I recommend anyone to play it as you can get it for free on the internet and run it on your computer with an emulator. Oh goodness gracious, I can see that there's scan rates on the television. Oh, absolutely. It's also vintage, because I'm getting the scan line running around. Absolutely. It's a vintage TV with a vintage console and a very modern game running on it. Yes. This is one of the numerous pieces by Daniel Leicester. Oh, yes. It's a very powerful piece, as you can see. You see images that you recognize from the assassination of Ben Laden and those three monkeys that instead of coloring their eyes, mouths and ears, they are actually expressing themselves through the eyes. Yeah, that's a cynical little face, isn't it? Goodness gracious. Let me just film some of this detail. Curbly painted there. Is it paint? Oh, it's a collage. We think, I guess. So they're watching the assassination of Osama Ben Laden. Of course. There's a little picture in the background. I see Obama. I'm pretty sure Kathy recognized this picture immediately. Oh, there's Jared. Yeah. And then Baldwin is on. Oh, that's Hillary? Yeah. Goodness gracious. Is anyone of those three? No. No. And then immediately to your left, you have a very rough time filming this quote and quote hologram. Actually, no. Oh, goodness gracious. Yes, it's throwing. Oh, folks, there's... What is? Yeah. It only means that people will have to come and experience it by themselves until they're finished with the quote. Look, what we're seeing here is a hologram. And I can see... This is undergrad. And we have the prisoner attached with electrons. It's a 3D sculpture. It is done a piece by the Norwegian street artist Eftar as he put it in the streets of Bergen in Norway. Yeah. Which is called the persecution. And you can see a lot of tiny details including the collage from the video. This drone hovering in the background. Wonderful. All those cameras and this surveillance atmosphere. And indeed the main figure evokes Abu Ghazib and the torture of Guantanamo with the orange tone of the gun. Yeah. So a very complex and at times subliminal piece, indeed. Yeah, I just caught a flash of Chelsea Manning as well. So who's the artist? Eftar is this anonymous Norwegian street artist with several pieces in the streets of Bergen in Norway which is apprehensive based. Yeah. Related to Joghain. Yes. And we are very lucky to have this piece because it's very rare to hear what should be exposed like this. Yeah. If you look here and to your left you'll see this impressive piece by Pito Stael. It's a 2015 piece that is based on the Syria files released by Mechanics. Wow. And through a very meticulous analysis of the documents she ends up demonstrating very disturbing corruption in the world of art. How international sales of art is used for tax evasion. How most of the art institutions in the world are basically in bed with the Bashar al-Assad regime at the same time the international support community is criticizing him for his civil war and it's a very in-depth and very engaged piece from an artist who is actually very renowned in the world of art today. It's really an activist piece if you will. It would take you a while to watch it in full because I think it lasts for 30 minutes but it's very much worth paying attention to it. Yeah. So we have headphones here so you can... We could also... Like that. While filming it. The refugees have fled the advancing militias in the Islamic State which invaded Iraq in almost 2014 200 Yazidi refugees from Shankar are sheltered in Gatling. To your left is another piece by Daniel Reister the famous German painter who gifted us with three of his pieces actually and this one is the thing we have explored before. So we have written on this I don't know if it's so clear in the video but it says part of the piece. I'm pretty sure it's really the pieces of all the on the screens. That's a beautiful piece. Beautiful texture. And right next to you is this multi-modal sculpture. Pretty sure the name we called it was and this is a piece by Daniel this morning, a London based fashion icon and friend of Julian who describes themselves as a living sculpture. Daniel is always shown it is improbable outfits composed of innumerous details and he gifted us with this piece called Activist. You can see many references to Assange, to Manning and a frame around the face of the subject evokes either a painting or a portrait or maybe is it a mirror? Is it a piece in which we should look at ourselves to see our face muted, censored a very complex and beautiful piece indeed. And the subject is wearing this gown which is a free Assange that is I think a banner from an actual protest in London. And yeah this the police tape as well I've seen that on the road there was one piece with people in orange jumpsuits lying on the road with this crime scene tape. Before moving on to the next room you may pay attention to this screen over there which is overlooked. The screen is off yet the logo of the TV is lit which may leave you to wonder if you pay attention actually this very model is a reference to Vault 7 by an agent. You got it. It is the very same so-called smart TV that is being referenced in the Vault 7 as being the victim of the whipping angel cyber weapon of the CIA that enables them to remotely activate the camera or the microphone at the piece with us. Whipping angel, that's it. So this black screen TV with its logo on is randomly sitting in an awkward corner here maybe it is watching us right now. Hello boys! Over here is I think it's not functioning at the moment but this is a pteramine antenna that when you approach your hand is reading sort of a song with the names of the programs of the CIA and the NSA by Melisa Logan from the Chicks on Street and if you enter the next room here of course on the wall is what may cash your eye at first is this imposing map of the actors of the persecution of Julian. It is a collective work done on a wiki on the challenge power wiki a lot of it based on so-called open source intelligence Consumption News is one of the major sources for the information that is actually listed on that board but also declassified UK and a few of the real independent investigative outlets that are out there in the world. So it exposes the collusion it exposes the conflict of interest one obvious one on the very top you see Dick Cheney the chief executive of Haliburton a profiteering from the war in Iraq while he was advising George Bush as vice president at the time so he's ironically on top of that map as a sort of a godfather of all conflict of interest but if you look into the bottom you see and you can see a familiar with her the judge Emma Bethnot whose husband Baron James Al Bethnot is one of the chairs of you can follow this arrow here is if I may one of the chairs here of Thales the company that has been further exposed by the spy files of Wikileaks continuing the tour so exactly Lady Al Bethnot's son Alexander is here you can see that he's the vice president here going that way Al Trace the company that is exposing whistleblowers and recruiting NSA employees and so it's health research, health art a piece that is very very dear to our house Pretty Patel is there indeed Pretty Patel if you were to look for a common thread to the works exposed here I think it would be that they all trying to tell a very complicated story to expose complexity and to somehow make sense of the density that is of the story of Assange and Wikileaks Well there is Sir Alan Duncan we know from his diary that he was instrumental in persuading Lenin Moreno to evict Julian from the embassy and bloated about it in his diary Exactly and you can see the 40 years old friend Operation Pelican was not Exactly Operation Pelican is also a 40 years old friend of the lord chief justice Burnett who is one of the prosecutors of Assange Well that's right, we kind of thought that this would be good news when Burnett arrived on the same because he had decided not to extradite Laurie Love and that was for health reasons as well and he tried to say in the courtroom that there was a difference between Laurie Love and Julian Assange and Laurie Love was suffering they were both suffering from depression and Asperger's but Laurie Love was suffering from a physical condition as well which at the time still is eczema but since then Julian has had a mini stroke and so he has a physical condition as well and one would presume then that there would be no difference but that's never been heard and thought since and if you film the bottom you'll see that there is an interactive version of the map online that would enable you it's based on the wiki and based on the data of the wiki that we used to generate it so this is it here it's map, challenge power it's also a bunch of posters that everyone is free to take with the design of the map on it so if you want to take a look here is that the tongue sticking out what is it the letters on the tip of it read deep state it's a piece by David Elormino the Italian scholar anything to say that's one of the two pieces he gave us for this exhibition over here you will find this singular box that is also a box of ammunition by the US Army, the war crime thematic and you actually will know what this red button does so I suggest that maybe while I hold you may want to actually press it oh goodness that's a record for you is it no more line story sorry oh right oh yeah so this is these from the wiki leaks releases are they towards the bottom you will see a count this one is 15 killed one wounded this is indeed a random Afghan war diary it's a war diary where at least one person has been killed that's what the war crime thematic gives to every visitor you've got a particularly long one here I certainly did that's one for an investigative journalist of your talent I guess well it goes down to the floor I'm standing here if you want to try the war crime thematic you press the red button see what you just do editorial chief of consortium visiting so let's see what oh thank you not quite as long as mine it's a random war log from Afghanistan reporting at least one death well of course there were 15,000 weren't they and reported more than 15 million deaths from the Iraq and Afghanistan that's right a lot of people weren't mentioned on this other world there is another complex throw chop it's the album of chore an algorithm based on research on numerous financial leaks including the Julius Baer leaks all the bank forms the fine people of the ribbon collective basically if you follow this algorithm from the start to the end and of course if you can afford the steps on the way you will end up paying no tax it's as simple as this this flowchart saves you five years in business school and if you can afford again it saves you a whole lot of contributions to the world there's a bunch of other ones that you can consult including tax optimizers through arts that actually resonates with the piece of Hito's tail in the other room a way to anonymize financial transaction how to anonymize the ships and this box over here is well it's written here it's a seeding unit it is sharing over the BitTorrent network the Julius Baer leaks in real time using the BitTorrent protocol so it is basically enabling those data from the database to remain online of course the Julius Baer was back in 2009 I think so yes yes it's a very early one this is also a piece by Daniel Richter this is a poster for the event that you can see also printed later as one of the many free posters that one can get here at Noisy Leeds yeah that's such a good artist that one is already this panda it has been made by Ai Weiwei and Jake Applebaum the panda is stuffed by revelations stuffed with stolen documents and I think a micro SD card as in the five of the leaks what do you mean inside it? we're not supposed to touch the art oh I'm sorry it's so cute it is cute and you can find still it is an invaluable piece by Ai Weiwei I didn't I won't tell anyone we won't tell your viewers just pull this down a little bit you're not supposed to do that people can see or read what it says from the teaser so it is stuffed with the leaks of Snowden and others but also the fun fact is that panda is the name of a cryptographic protocol for key exchange and in Chinese the word panda sounds very close to a slang use describing the secret services also the pandas were smuggled out of China which was also part of the piece as a gesture well as a comment on the geopolitics of the time here on the two screens is another piece that pre-exists or expose that you may be familiar with it's a delivery for Mr. Assange by the Megan group this is this parcel the GPS and the camera that was sent to the Ecuadorian Embassy documented in real time it's journey through the all just corners of the British postal system so this is the screen that reports and the other one is the one with the pictures oh my god yes, definitely so in fact the app is tracking it's a leak of data in itself what happens to a strange parcel going to a strange destination so these are messages that are being sent to WikiLeaks in real time that were messages sent via Twitter either by the parcel itself in its location or by the Megan group tracking the parcel now arrived with the Embassy security so they couldn't write it they couldn't throw it away oh yeah so they have synchronized these two exactly they need to be seen in conjunction yeah this was a wonderful piece so that's this is inside the Embassy right definitely and it's sitting on the desk filming the support, what the hell is that I guess it's an Ecuadorian test oh you say this is a cat no, it's a much bigger cat oh right I think incredible and I will and I think it's Julian receiving the parcel excellent this was a beautiful piece what year was it, 2013 was it? yes yes yes yes I recall this one, it was quite exciting since Julian appeared yeah there he is, this image that we remember where he spent the last hours playing with the parcel well I only ever saw stills from this still feathers, I've never seen the video and this is the actual parcel taking the incredible so he's not quite sure whether it's filming him or not but he's I think there was on Twitter in real time we can see you here to your right you see one of the latest pieces by David the Ormino, this ominous book made of stone with these ominous looking spikes, rusty spikes if you get closer you will see the title of the book it calls for getting closer it is indeed the Wikileaks files you can see the lettering here the Wikileaks files I have a copy of the Wikileaks files at home some Australians contributed to it now to your left you will see a public library of 3 meters of the diplomatic cables of Cablegate it's all the cables classified as secret or secret slash slash no form it's 66 volumes Joe you may to pick one of these volumes and open them they're taking volume 31 that contains 239 cables from the fifth week of 2008 to later that year these were actually printed this is incredible I worked by the institute for Descent and Data Love how many editions are there there's only one only one and when were these actually printed just recently they arrived in morning wow it was done for this show after the original when the show was over we should go to a permanent exhibit in a museum we'll consider options so if you look over here you'll see the numerous posters that everyone can get here for free you're also free to make the donation oh and the poster by Daniel Richter among with a few artworks like you may remember you may remember this splendid mural this is a wonderful place that was put in the streets of Berlin 20 meters high mural by Captain Bordelheim oh is that how big it was 20 meters high this is a piece by IFCA the same Norwegian street artist that did the hologram in the other room and among the 3 B's for you Cathy this is the soundtrack of a war crime it's an actual cassette tape of the soundtrack of the collateral murder oh so it is I'm sure you should have one oh I don't you should give it to somebody more important there's hundreds of those and you are important to the story of Assange and Wikidix and we're all absolutely can you say fucking delighted on the camera okay fucking delighted that you can get one because we're all admirers of consortium news and you're among the sources that were the most useful to some of these works here so if anyone here deserves it it's you, Cathy and Joe there's a couple of things we have to oh wait yes of course you missed one of the funniest wordings of them all this is the callous pie by the PEN Collective this phone is connected to a system with more than 30,000 phone numbers that are actual phone numbers, extensions not front desks, at the CIA the NSA, the FBI and the French the French the CIA the CIA so the actual spies I don't know if we can we'll be calling the USA hello it's very funny to play pranks on them asking them if for instance that's my last call to them you can ask them is there a leak I see water and documents everywhere you see a leak you see a leak could I speak to Mike oh he doesn't work there anymore okay wrong number who could save the show so we are mostly a bunch of friends of Julien Assange who wanted to try to help him and also now speaking only for myself I've been trying to help him while telling a deeper story than the story of somebody who may or may not be a journalist and is being tortured right now to tell the backstory to tell the the origin somehow as we are talking of journalism going back to the source of WikiLeaks and the persecution of Assange and I think it's a common trait to a lot of the works you see exposed here is that they they're diving into the deep complexity of WikiLeaks and the various leaks of WikiLeaks you're standing in front of this map that exposes the conflict of interests and the complexity of a legal case being fought in five jurisdiction that is absolutely unprecedented so we hadn't come on I'm mostly speaking for myself but I think we hadn't come on to be Julien's friends and to be frustrated by not seeing the big picture in the media and also now back to speaking to myself while our opponents are constantly using storytelling and weaponizing storytelling against the people and where misinformation is being industrialized in our world and those armies of stockpuppets controlled by the agencies and so on we felt that it's only legitimate that we use the tool of storytelling somehow to be telling our own stories that we use fiction as an inspiring tool for telling the story we actually want to be telling which is the story of the origins of WikiLeaks the roots of the persecution of Assange so we met with one of the operators of this lovely gallery space that is a self-run artist space that often do expose and we thought that we'll do this crazy project of trying to assemble some of the most prestigious artists in the field of modern art like Hito Steyer, Ai Weiwei, Daniel Richter Stara Lucas and also some unknown artists all together but also the idea was to do something that is somehow much more than an expo, it's an expo about diving deep into complexity so we had to do something deeper so besides an expo it is three weeks of events, of meetings we see the place, there is a room to the back where we can sit and chill and invent other type of stories so the idea was the expo was somehow the entryway to a longer occasion to an event to be together to regroup and maybe to invent the next parts of that story So to your knowledge this is the first art exhibition devoted exclusively to these events I would say so, I would say so Are most of the works here works that existed somewhere else for example I saw this film in the Norway in an art festival and you reached out to those artists or anything new, original I would say that about half the art works maybe a bit more than half the art works are actually original art works but indeed a few are more ancient and we expose them as something that is more or less timeless you know the piece by Hito Steyl in the other room is from 2015 and is related to the Syria files so it is somehow a marker in time at the time of the Syria files of what happened then and all this is inscribed in a continuity one piece that you cannot see due to technical reasons here is a recreation of the collateral murder video with white apes that was part of a theatre play that Angela Richter did in 2012 called Assassinate Assange this piece had only be shown in theatre before be shown here so is it an original piece or not you know it's to be discussed so I think Angela's piece dated 2012 this probably the most ancient piece of demo and so from 2012 to 2022 is somehow a continuity in the timeline in the timeline of Wikileaks and in the timeline of the persecution of Julian Assange was that performed here it was on display on that wall from that projector which like Balba originally it was here in a theatre in Berlin I think it was shown in theatres in Berlin and through Europe as well so it started on October 13 October 7 and it's running from the 8th to the 30th and anyone is very welcome check the website for a very dense program of events we have a concert and music jam on Tuesday the 18th with a Palestinian musician called Dirard Kalash who is a multi-instrumentist experimenter that maybe will turn into a music jam we had a Piñata party with our Guatemalan friend Renata about a smashing corporate secrecy that was an in-depth dive into the corporate secrets exposed by Wikileaks and we built this lovely Piñata where we put the logos of these corporations that we filled with our wishes for exposing new secrets that we collected bit down to a pulp in the gallery there will be with Matt Kennard on the 22nd of October a British tea party about exposing the economics of the empire you may want to press that red button you may want to press that red button can I just film your hand? of course long ones today I mean it's a good sign Afghan War Logs as we'll see later in this video tonight there's a special guest speaking here later this afternoon Stella Assange will be with us for an Ask Me Anything session we'll see what happens we do hope that the maybe inspiring maybe stimulating maybe relaxing setup of our gallery and the proximity of so many friends may at least make her feel a little bit better than she usually feels and may make us maybe feel more comfortable opening up to the crowd we've been talking about these events day and day and there's a fantastic response by the public everybody said oh and I'll come again on Friday one thing that is really telling to me and like really inspiring also is that it's now six days and a half since the vernisage and we've seen people coming for the fourth time already we've seen people who were here at the vernisage and came back for almost all the events so it feels like we are somehow well feeling a need as many people coming here know either a little bit about Assange or WikiLeaks or not the full story but all agree that there is a need to sit down and relax around some more thorough material than the few snippets and the few headlines that we sometimes read and hear about him so that's one of the main thread of the works assembled here is to actually take time to dive into this complexity and try to collectively make sense out of it I think honestly that it's maybe the only way that we may get the strength and the inspiration to be capable to write the next pages in this long story thank you very much wonderful welcome now there's one person who is not on this there was highly significant in the Swedish story and that is the Swedish Chief Justice Stephen Linscock who came to Australia and he was the one that we captured on tape saying there was no legal reason why she Mariana knew could not either come to London or use unusual legal assistance it was a standard procedure because it was simply an investigation to pose the questions she stalled until it could be stalled no longer it was five years in action but Stephen Linscock back in 2013 came to Australia and he said no there's no legal reason why she's doing this so I think it's a big it's always been political I think I'm going to take the mini version of this this is the one I want this one for me okay it's been a remarkable exhibition here the only thing we haven't seen so far is the cell the reproduction of the Santa's cell and that hasn't opened yet but we'll go in there in a little while I'll take you in with me and you'll see how small it is I've only seen a little bit of it on video but we'll be back soon inside the Santa's cell so this is one of the key pieces of the exhibition this is outside the exhibition space and this is a replica of Julian Assange's cell I haven't been inside yet but I've heard there's been some artistic license with the decor inside but these are the exact measurements of Julian's cell and I've been told that the best thing that you can do is to learn and experience what it's like to be in that confined space so let's go in and take a look and then from what I gather I'm going to be locked in here on my own oh goodness so quite awful so what we have here is it's really quite hard hard to film it we have a little stool and we have a table here and then we have a sort of a bed, a camp bed and here we have a Guantanamo suit orange jumpsuit I'm now locked in the cell the door is closed and this is very very tiny space it's just really quite horrible I know what these I know what these sounds are I feel the sound is it's coming from the other side of the wall now these sounds are an actual recording from Julian's cell I've been told this is a recording of Belmarsh I get to hear every day people losing it, completely losing it very angry that's it it's a really horrible space I'm just going to sit on the bed and with my back against the wall and you get a clear idea of the size of this space there you go this is the space that Julian Assange has been held in it's quite a low ceiling as well so incredibly incredibly oppressive day after day for years now okay so I'm going to knock on the door and I hope to hear me I want out of here as quickly as possible can you let me out please really freak me out okay so we're here with Tom and Manja and they have created this extraordinary exhibit that's here parked across the street from the gallery where tonight we visited the show Noisy Lakes what this is is a replica of the exact size of the cell where Julian Assange is staying in Belmarsh prison in Belmarsh Lies you can get information www.assangenetwork.net and can you tell us the origin of the idea of this truck and where it's been in Europe or certainly in Germany in the moment we are in Germany where we plan to go to Brussels to Strasbourg to London we want to go everywhere with the cell and the idea is to make people aware of Julian's situation and prison conditions over three and a half years now and you said originally it was permanently in one place and then you decided to put on wheels originally it was in one place in an exhibition in Leipzig and Tom said that we need to bring it on the road we need to bring it everywhere that people see it we come to the people and what has been the reaction of people when they go inside they are all shocked do most of the people who go inside know who Julian Assange is and something about the case on last Friday we had a lot of people who didn't know and then became aware of his conditions and actually one part of his idea is I saw an interview with Julian after he was released on bail after his first arrest in London and he said to the journalist that they all should go for a couple of days they should sell and ask the question if it is humane to put people into boxes and this shows what wonderful and fine character Julian is and I think we need to do it now that inspired you to do this project this was a big part of the inspiration so it just gives you an opportunity to explain to people who don't know about the case or about Julian what it's all about and you find most people are receptive to what you tell them absolutely yes they tell them about it we shut the door they experience it and then they are shocked and then they start to do something and think and this is what it is about that he's in there because of things that he's published and nothing for no other reason absolutely he done no crime he only done right so and can they believe this that this could happen in a western so called democracy? they are so shocked that they in the first moment maybe can't believe it research and look into Julian's case and when this is what we achieve with the cells and we have achieved what we want you hear back from some of the people who yes we hear back when they describe the experience what it does to them when did you start this project? we started actually officially last week last week we had the big or the first cell in Leipzig in the exhibition so people could experience it now since August and you said earlier that you intend to bring it on the road to other countries in Europe yes for example we want to go to Brussels we want to go to Strasbourg to the court of human rights and we want to go to London London? yes have you had any problem with the police about even parking trouble? none yet no just parking like any other vehicle no one any authorities curious about this yet? do you expect that to remain the same when you go to Britain? not really my husband is British so he expect quite a lot of trouble are you going to drive out towards Woolwich where Belmarsh is in that area? yeah and we got a suggestion last week to maybe bring it to the Ecuadorian embassy but we will see there's a lot of police around there still but I think it's a great idea to try it anyway this is extraordinary because in the US there's a billboard truck that goes around in Washington that's been going on for the last couple of months but this is something quite extraordinary so how long do people stay in there without wanting to get out the original plan was to let them be in there for 13 minutes one minute for every year Julian is persecuted in any shape or form but most make it maximum 4 to 5 45 seconds? the longest anybody has ever stayed is 45 minutes no I said 13 minutes is the original plan and most make it 4 to 5 minutes and the longest one was actually last Friday a journalist made it for 13 minutes 30 minutes but the average is 4 to 5 minutes and Zanzai want to come out they want to get out I didn't even make it that long until I was banging on the door thank you very very much you're welcome